Should You Warn Your Audience That You are Going to Be Boring?

The Complete Personal Productivity Course - Business and Life Most Common Questions People Ask About Making More Productive Presentations - I
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First, I just want to warn you right here, I'm really sorry, I didn't prepare this speech is going to be boring. It's going to be awful. Shit, you warn your audience that you're going to be boring? No, that's a horrible idea. Sometimes people feel like, oh, I'll lower expectations. So this way, if I'm really awful, I will off the hook.

Well, no, you're not off the hook. People have come into a room to watch you or they're watching you present online or any other place. They're just listening from the standpoint of this person gonna say something interesting or useful to me, or are they going to waste my time, if you're wasting people's time, you're wasting people's time telling them you're going to waste their time doesn't remove the sting. So don't lower expectations. Instead, spend your time trying to figure out how to say something interesting. Doesn't have to be the best speech in the world and that to be wildly funny, just give people one interesting idea.

Something you have to say that's going to be useful. Act like you find your presentation interesting and useful and exciting. Even if it's not the single most exciting topic in the world focus on one thing that's interesting. put a spotlight on that. If someone else wants to make the judgment that you are boring, okay, you're not going to debate them. But you're not going to make it easier for them to come to that conclusion.

So now, don't tell people and if you don't get any points for being authentic, don't tell people it's gonna be boring. Just speak in an interesting away as possible.

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